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G. J. HARTLEY. THRASHER ATTACHMENT FOR ELB'VATING AND CONVEYING GRAIN.

No. 464,601. Patented De0.8,1891.

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Patented Dec. 8.,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. HARTLEY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF 'TWO-THIRDS TO JOHN K. WARREN AND BRADFORD K. DURFEE, OF SAME PLACE.

THRASHER ATTACHMENT FOR ELEVATING AND CONVEYING GRAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 464,501, dated December 8, 1891. Application filed January 28, 1891. Serial No. 379,390. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (humans J. HARTLEY, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thrasher Attachments for Elevating and Conveying Grain, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed to provide simple and efiective means for elevating grain from the discharge of a thrasher and conveying it to a wagon or other receptacle; and it consists in the details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

7 In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side View of the attachment as it appears when connected with a thrasher. Fig. 2 is an enlarged representation of the elevator-boot. Fig. 3 shows the elevator-boot opened. Fig. i-is a plan of the shaft, which extends across the deck of the thrasherand to which the upper end of the elevator is attached. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the compound adjustable clamp used to secure the shaft in proper position. Fig. 6 shows the side of the boot next the thrasher.

The elevator 1 is provided with elevatingbuckets in the customary or any desirable manner. It is suitably secured at its lower end to the thrasher and is connected at its upper end with shaft 13. Braces 5 and 6 extend from the elevator and support socket 4.. The conveyer 2 has the hopper 3 under the discharge of the elevator, and it is pivotally sustained by a pin which rests in socket 4. A pulley 7 runs loosely on the supporting-pin of the conveyer, and has a bevel gear-wheel 8 or other device to impart motion to the conveyer-shaft. The belt 11 receives power from a moving part of the thrasher, and it runs over idlers 9 and 10, pulley 7, and pulley 12, thus imparting motion to both the conveying and the elevating mechanism. Straps 15 are secured one to each side of the thrasher, and they each have a horizontal upper portion, to which shaft 18 is secured. The clamps 14 have their upper ends divided. They each to receive the shaft, a slot 14 to receive the strap, and a securing-bolt 14 to bind the strap and. shaft together.

The boot is composed of an upper part 17 and a lower part 18, joined together obliquely by means of pivotal and removable connections. The lower connection is shown at 20, the upper at 21, and 20 and 21 represent each a removable pivot-pin. The upper part of the boot is open on both sides, while the lower part has one side closed and also has a flap 19, adaptedIto close a side of the upper part. Brackets 23 extend downward from the upper part of the boot and provide bearings for the sprocket-wheel 24 of .the elevatorchain. Oil-holes 22 are provided in brackets 23, and such holes are accessible when the boot is closed. The link 16 connects pivotally with the top of the elevator and sustains the swinging end of the conveyer.

In connecting the device with a thrasher straps 15 are secured to the thrasher in approximately correct positions. The end of the shaft is extended beyond one side or the other of the thrasher. The lower part of the boot is connected with the upper in a manner to close the side farther from the thrasher and leave the nearer side open. The elevator is secured to the shaft and connected at its lower end with the thrasher in'such manner as to properly receive grain from the spout. Clamps 14 are adjusted along the straps until the desired position is accurately formed, and are then secured by the bolts, which clamp the shaft in close contact with the straps and secure all parts rigidly together.

The device is intended to be used with an automatic weigher, which may be secured to the discharge end of the elevator, and it combines with simplicity the peculiarity of being adapted for use on either side of the thrasher.

1. The combination of the elevator carrying the vertical bearing, the conveyer pivotally supported by a pin in the vertical bearing, the conveyer driving-pulley on the supporting-pin, and the drive belt adapted to run both the elevating mechanism and the conveyer driving-pulley, as set forth.

2. A boot for elevators for thrashers, composed of an upper part having both sides open and a lower interchangeable part having one side open and the other side adapted to close a side of the upper part, as set forth.

3. The elevator-boot consisting of upper Without-,part 18,having flap 19,:u1d removable part 17, open on both sides, the lower part 18, pivot-pins 20 and 21, as set forth. 1c having on one side a flap 19, adapted to close In testimony whereof I sign my name in the a side of the upper part, and the removable presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' 5 pivot-pins 20 and 21, whereby the parts are CHARLES J. HARTLEY.

secured together, as set forth. Attest:

4E. The combination of part 17, having JOHN K. TARREN,

brackets 23 and oil-holes 22, accessible from WALTER O. KEELER. 

